Isn't it safe to assume that TIME TRAVEL will NEVER be possible?

[Golgo-13]

If one believes that at some point in mans history, this great scientific achievement will be possible, isn't it safe to assume that someone should already know about it-in our time?

Think about it, someone from say the year 2800, would have undoutable already been (Or may still be here) and have inter-reacted with someone with the government, so someone from our time should already know time travel will be possible in the future, right?

But here's my thing, IF TIME TRAVEL is one day conceivable, why then did, say '911' still take place? I picked that day because it will be forever mark as a historic day in US history, so someone from the future should know of it. It seems to me that TIME TRAVEL may NEVER be possible due to all the horrific events that have happened over the last few centuries, which could have been easily been prevented by someone coming back in time with the preconcieved knowledge of when, where and how these events take place......

...don't you agree?
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Maybe there will be rescrictions on time travel?

Maybe altering an event like '911' will seriously jepodize other future events if prevented?

Maybe someone DID try and prevent some great, historical atrocity, and succeeded in a way. What we deem as horrific, they deemed as an OK outcome-as, ORIGINALLY, the event turned out alot worse?

Your thoughts....

 

[Sabretooth]

Outside of Back to the Future,no. Even if it was possible,no Average Joe's are gonna get near it. Too many ways to screw up history if it gets in the wrong hands as well.

 

[P5B]

All of us have already done it, just on very small scales.
Heres the deal:
Your movement through TIME and your movement through SPACE (walking across a room) will always add up to equal the speed of light.
This means that if I sit motionless, I am traveling through time at the speed of light.
This also means that if I am running at the speed of light, i am traveling through time at 0 mph.
So everytime we walk or run, we actually slow down our speed through time.
And since no one is traveling at exactly the same mph, we all travel through time at different speeds.
Nice concept huh?

 

[Darthphere]

You know what they say about assuming.

 

[Drakon]

Even if it was, we wouldn't know. Any tampering with something would change the timeline, and chances are we wouldn't know about it anyway.

EX--On a different timeline, we may have already entered nuclear war, and blew one of the other countries completely off the Planet. But in this timeline, we haven't, so we wouldn't know about it.

In short, you wouldn't know the change happened, because the event that was changed never happened the way it did before the tampering.

 

[SoulManX]

 

[rodhulk]

Well, it seems like some of the apostles in the Bible were taken up somewhere and saw the future, did they time travel??????

 

[Abaddon]

You know what they say about assuming.

It's good.

 

[Badger]

All of us have already done it, just on very small scales.
Heres the deal:
Your movement through TIME and your movement through SPACE (walking across a room) will always add up to equal the speed of light.
This means that if I sit motionless, I am traveling through time at the speed of light.
This also means that if I am running at the speed of light, i am traveling through time at 0 mph.
So everytime we walk or run, we actually slow down our speed through time.
And since no one is traveling at exactly the same mph, we all travel through time at different speeds.
Nice concept huh?

That just gave me a nosebleed.

 

[P5B]

But do you understand

 

[tzarinna]

I believe they had a small success in this department.
My instructor told us about it maybe two-three years ago. I think it was a short distance and very small amount of time. He never gave us the source. Um,mm.

 

[P5B]

I believe they had a small success in this department.
My instructor told us about it maybe two-three years ago. I think it was a short distance and very small amount of time. He never gave us the source. Um,mm.

Did you read my post?
Weve all done it, astronauts have done it to a greater extent
They are a few seconds 'into the future'

 

[Advanced Dark]

No it's not safe to say. How do I know this? He he he.

 

[Badger]

But do you understand

Of course, I was just proving your point but didn't see the wall.

 

[tzarinna]

Did you read my post?
Weve all done it, astronauts have done it to a greater extent
They are a few seconds 'into the future'

So what,I'm not allowed to share?

 

[P5B]

So what,I'm not allowed to share?

No.
This is a message board, why are you sharing things

 

[Fran]

I've done it already.

 

[Badger]

I've done it already.

And you choose to stop in Michigan, no less w. michigan? t:

 

[Fran]

This is just a short break, for about 5 more years.

Then I will travel to Florida.

 

[Red Mask]

I don't know if it's safe that time travel is impossible. I do hope beings of higher morality and judgement could accomplish it to save existence. Besides only the Buddha can see through time.

 

[Cyclops]

I don't think it's safe to assume that anything is impossible. Improbable, yes, but impossible, no. One never can tell exactly what the future holds in store for us.

 

[Poetic Chaos]

My friend moved 2 hours into the future to Nebraska.

 

[bored]

Intentionally stopping an event like 9/11 would be impossible, even if backwards time travel could actually work. If it never happened, you wouldn't know to go back and stop it. And that, little Billy, is what we call a 'paradox'.

 

[Cаrter]

Crichton's book, Timeline actually goes about this in a different way.
Something to do with String Theory, I think.

Anyway. There might be something called the "multi-verse". Which means there are an infinite number of universes. And an infinite number of "you" in each one.
However something is a wee bit different in each universe. In one you're a rocket scientist. In another, you're a drag queen, etc.

Also, in Timeline the story says that time isn't actually linear. And for every second (or millisecond, or w/e) time breaks off into another universe.
So there's an alternate reality for five minutes ago that's somehow running parallel to our own time.

So, in the book all they do to go "back in time" is to hop to the alternate universe for 500 years ago.
Even though it's fiction, Crichton went to great lengths to make it make sense.

 

[Advanced Dark]

Intentionally stopping an event like 9/11 would be impossible, even if backwards time travel could actually work. If it never happened, you wouldn't know to go back and stop it. And that, little Billy, is what we call a 'paradox'.

No if you went back to stop it the future would change from that point on to it never having had happened. Once stopped you wouldn't have to go back and stop it. It's a tangent or a crossroads.